The popularity of gastronomic tourism is steadily increasing worldwide, driven by evolving consumer preferences, a growing interest in national cuisines as a means of cultural self-identification, and the perception of gastronomy as a significant component of a tourist destination’s image. Gastronomy serves as an important resource for developing innovative tourism offerings and an effective tool for territorial branding, including in the Krasnodar region. The study purpose is to systematize regional gastronomic sites and event-based activities with culinary and historical-cultural features, to determine the prospects for their use as gastronomic brands, and to analyze the directions of gastronomic tourism development from the perspective of territorial branding tools. The research employed observation methods to identify gastronomically attractive sites and zones in the region, classification to identify destination promotion directions through gastronomic branding, generalization to develop branding tools and an overall concept for promoting gastronomic tourism, and analysis to examine in detail the features of gastronomic tourism and the challenges of its promotion. The practical result of the study is an assessment of the resource potential and problems of developing gastronomic tourism as a branding tool for the Krasnodar Territory. The research novelty lies in the systematization of the region gastronomic brands, identifying promising areas for their integration into the territorial marketing strategy, and determining the factors constraining gastronomic tourism development in the region. The conducted analysis allows formulating recommendations for improving the gastronomic territorial branding and enhancing tourist attractiveness of the region.